Two weeks ago Josh Brent’s attorney managed to keep his client out of jail by convincing a Dallas County judge that, even though the alcohol monitor around the Dallas Cowboy’s ankle had detected booze, it didn’t mean Brent had actually consumed any. Court documents filed in the case today show…
In the same way that Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC once America caught on to the fact that deep-frying things isn’t good for you, National Lead — one of the dozen stocks that comprised the original Dow Jones industrial average — became simply NL Industries. At some…
The recent history of the Alamo, the iconic San Antonio fort where a ragtag band of freedom fighters made their desperate stand against Santa Ana, has been marred by controversy. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, which had overseen the shrine for more than a century, was stripped of…
The 5 a.m. shift is typically a quiet one for a cashier at an all-night pharmacy. The drunks have mostly gone to bed while the sober haven’t yet roused themselves for the new day. But for whatever reason, that wasn’t the case on Wednesday at the CVS at Central Expressway…
Update at 2:57: Dallas ISD spokesman Jon Dahlander wrote to clarify that Morath was not actually delivering a commencement address. (For that, you can watch the entire ceremony DISDBlog firmly in the latter category. Morath is their fork-tongued punching bag.” target=”_blank”>here.) “All elected trustees are asked to participate in graduation…
Over the past several months, since the murder of Deanna Cook and a couple of other cases laid bare deep-seated problems at the city’s 911 call center, Dallas police have scrambled to hire dozens of new call takers to address a chronic staffing shortage that had lasted for years. It…
Last year, as part of its ever-so-hesitant embrace of things that aren’t cars, the city of Dallas eased its parking requirements a bit. The idea was that, by shrinking the sea of asphalt the city requires shops and restaurants to surround themselves with, the measure would help foster the denser,…
The Texas Civil Rights Project hoped that Skye Wyatt’s case would set a precedent. Wyatt, the activists claimed, was confronted by her two Kilgore High School softball coaches in the locker room after a team meeting, where they accused her of having a lesbian relationship with another girl. The coaches…
Andrew Beal isn’t your typical banker. For starters, he’s a lot richer. He’s No. 43 on Forbes’ list of the country’s richest people, worth an estimated $8.5 billion. And he’s always been less interested in conspicuous displays of wealth than in things like rockets, poker strategy and mathematical theory. His…
The news reports don’t say why Mesquite’s Steve Johnston was in California. On vacation, one presumes, doing some deep-sea fishing. In any case, he and a crew from the Outdoor Channel’s The Professionals chartered a boat out of Huntington Beach and went hunting for mako sharks. The trip was a…
Kassandra Martinez’s future just got even bleaker. The 20-year-old Mexican national was already in jail on a murder charge for allegedly running over her cousin last month at a Northwest Dallas gas station. Witnesses told police Martinez was mad at the cousin for refusing to chip in for gas after…
Back in January, our sister paper, the Miami New Times, dropped a bombshell on Major League Baseball when it reported on the dealings of a sort-of doctor named Anthony Bosch who, through his clinic, BioGenesis, was apparently supplying an All-Star roster of professional baseball players with banned, performance-enhancing drugs. Among…
Two Dallas police officers were on patrol in South Dallas on the night of April 21 when they saw Fred Bradford, 51, riding his bike behind the Kwick Stop Liquor store on Martin Luther King Boulevard. According to a police report filed at the time, the two officers, Bryan Burgess…
The anticipation building in advance of the official unveiling of the Dallas Stars’ new look was dulled somewhat when the logo was accidentally (or maybe on purpose) leaked on the team’s smartphone app. The club did a better job with the updated jerseys, keeping those updated jerseys under wraps until…
Walk Score became a thing almost as soon as the company first began rating the pedestrian-friendliness of cities and neighborhoods in 2007. By now, it’s so firmly established that it’s worked its way into the vernacular of real estate and urban planning. Zillow, for example, includes a walk score for…
First, a bit of background. For the past several months, Battleground Texas has been laying the groundwork for a Democratic takeover of Texas. It will be a long process, requiring the development of the on-the-ground political infrastructure needed to reliably turn out Democrats to vote, Latino ones especially. So far,…
Updated on June 5: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram identifies the victim as Leona Swafford, who was described by relatives as “frail and very religious.” The carjacker remains on the loose. Original post: A neighbor saw the scene unfold: an 84-year-old woman pulls her 2010 Lincoln into the driveway of her…
Free baseball tickets aren’t going to rebuild the town of West, Texas or bring back the 15 people who were killed when a fertilizer plant exploded there on April 17. But it’s certainly a nice gesture on the part of the Texas Rangers, who announced today that they’ve invited basically…
Picture a long, steep staircase. Now, picture an extremely obese individual climbing up it. There’s a lot of sweating and heavy breathing, no doubt, accompanied by a chorus of unseemly grunts and muttered curses. There’s a not-too-distant risk of cardiac arrest. In this scenario, put forward on Monday in the…
When Ron Kirk began pitching the Trinity River Project in the late 1990s, no one was thinking about the Texas heelsplitter or the Texas pigtoe, or the Mexican fawnsfoot, the smooth pimpleback, or the Texas fatmucket. There was no real reason to. Back then, the species were sufficiently abundant that…
Update at 3:03 p.m.: Amsterdam owner Mike Scheel called this afternoon to update us on a couple of things. One, he wanted to note that the bar does its best to protect patrons and employs an off-duty Dallas police sergeant. The sergeant was actually working at the bar last night…
When Dallas ISD chief of staff told Superintendent Mike Miles last week that he was facing federal criminal charges, he wasn’t kidding. The indictment, which stems from his three-year tenure as chief information officer at the Atlanta Public School System, was unsealed Monday. The scheme detailed by court documents isn’t…
